Help Bear The Cost

April 7, 1985

THIS MAY come as a surprise to those who know me, but I agree with the Volusia County School Board's decision to give Superintendent L Jim Surratt a $10,000 raise, bringing his salary to $70,000 a year, for doing a good job.

However, I feel that instead of doing so with ad- ditional tax dollars, each of the board members should have contributed $2,000 of the money we taxpayers are paying them to run our schools as economically and efficiently as possible.

Because all of them are independently self-suffi- cient financially without their school board pay -- I am basing this on their financial disclosure -- I don't see why they could not have shown true gen- erosity by using a small part of the more than $14,000 a year they get for meeting twice a month.